Word Finder - comes

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To move from further away to nearer to.

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She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes [...]

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To arrive.

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To appear, to manifest itself.

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The pain in his leg comes and goes.

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(with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.

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She came to think of that country as her home.

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(with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.

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Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered?

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To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.

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Which letter comes before Y?   Winter comes after autumn.

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To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.

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He came after a few minutes.

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(with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.

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One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart.

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(with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.

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He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits.

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(fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.

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He was a dream come true.

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To be supplied, or made available; to exist.

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A new sports car doesn't come cheap.

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To carry through; to succeed in.

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You can't come any tricks here.

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Happen.

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This kind of accident comes when you are careless.

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(with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.

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(of grain) To germinate.

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To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.

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Don't come the innocent victim. We all know who's to blame here.

The truth comes out eventually.

A single word comes to mind.

She doesn't know that giving it to any man she comes across basically makes her his wife.

I don't care if he comes to me.

If he comes in here, there's no way out.

She may live an eternity, even if her soul comes to you eventually, Darkyn explained.

It costs more than it comes to.

I have to do it before Gabriel comes for me.

The election comes up in August.

We keep a record of everyone who comes through.

Above this comes a row of circular shields, adorned with intricate arabesques, while bands and wreaths of lilies are everywhere scupltured on the windows, balconies, tambours and cornices, adding lightness to the fabric. The whole is raised on a platform 7 ft.

It is the general rule, with frequent exceptions, that the quotidian paroxysm comes on in the morning, the tertian about noon, and the quartan in the afternoon.

Most, if not all, of the important knowledge of remedies comes from America, where this subject reaches the highest perfection; even the life-histories of some of the British pests have been traced out in the United States and British colonies more completely than at home, from the creatures that have been introduced from Europe.

The dust is chiefly of local origin, but partly comes from the Sahara.

In the form of an old woman named Deo (= the " seeker," or simply a diminutive form), she comes to the house of Celeus at Eleusis, where she is hospitably received.

The powerful fleet and maritime empire which Minos was said to have established will no doubt receive fuller illustration when the sea-town of Cnossus comes to be explored.

Holmes (Caesar's Conquest of Gaul, 1899), who comes to the conclusion that "when the Reman delegates told Caesar that the Belgae were descended from the Germans, they probably only meant that the ancestors of the Belgic conquerors had formerly dwelt in Germany, and this is equally true of the ancestors of the Gauls who gave their name to the Celtae; but, on the other hand, it is quite possible that in the veins of some of the Belgae flowed the blood of genuine German forefathers."

The union which sound religious teaching represents as realized in the submission of the will and the ethical harmony of the whole life is then reduced to a, passive experience, to something which comes and goes in time, and which may be of only momentary duration.

Although the foregoing account of the temperatures of Asia supplies the main outline of the observed phenomena, a very important modifying cause, of which more will be said hereafter, comes into operation over the whole of the tropical region, namely, the periodical summer rains.

What are we supposed to say to some strange man when he comes down for his morning meal?

The heated body of air carried from the Indian Ocean over southern Asia by the south-west monsoon comes up highly charged with watery vapour, and hence in a condition to release a large body of water as rain upon the land, whenever it is brought into circumstances which reduce its temperature in a notable degree.

In the aquatic genera the epidermis comes to consist entirely of glandular cells, which are, however, arranged in a single layer.

He comes to Attica and dies in the grove of the Eumenides at Colonus, in his death welcomed and pardoned by the fate which had pursued him throughout his life.

The export that comes next in value is silk, and after it may be named wheat, barley, manganese ore, maize, wool, oilcake, carpets, rye, oats, liquorice and timber.

It is therefore extraordinarily difficult at present to know what happens, or rather what would happen if it were not prevented, when a country reaches " the stage of diminishing returns "; what precisely it is which comes into operation, for obviously the diminishing returns are the results, not the cause; or how commodities " obey " a law which is always " suspended."

His camp-followers on the Gillies' Hill appeared over its crest at the critical moment which comes in all battles.

Introduced into Britain at the beginning of the 17th century, the silver fir has become common there as a planted tree, though, like the Norway spruce, it rarely comes up from seed scattered naturally.

Nearly 60% of it comes in the spring and summer.

Below this comes the front, and then the face or clypeus, to which a very distinct upper lip (labrum) is usually jointed.

Our earliest information about the Ephthalites comes from the Chinese chronicles, in which it is stated that they were originally a tribe of the great Yue-Chi, living to the north of the Great Wall, and in subjection to the Jwen-Jwen, as were also the Turks at one time.

Below the pediment comes an arcade with flat pilasters, which runs all round the exterior of the church.

Above the shaft comes the arcaded bell-chamber, frequently built of Istrian stone; and above that again the attic, either round or square or octagonal, carrying either a cone or a pyramid or a cupola, sometimes surmounted by a cross or a gilded angel which serves as a weathercock.

A tenancy at will is determined by either party alienating his interest as soon as such alienation comes to the knowledge of the other.

There remains one other important group, the so-called " kidney " cottons in which there are only long hairs, and the seed easily comes away clean as with " Sea Island," but, instead of each seed being separate, the whole group in each of the three compartments of the capsule is firmly united together in a more or less kidney-shaped mass.

The rule is that on the first of the two months the seller of " futures " may, and before the last day of the second month must, deliver cotton against them, or, what comes to the same thing, buy back the " futures " on the basis of the price of " spot " cotton of middling grade.

The miraculous germs always exist alongside other germs in a sort of sheath, like hidden springs in a machine, and emerge into the light when their time comes."

But that view which admits a life of God that is not benumbed in an unchangeable sameness will be able to understand his eternal co-working as a variable quantity, the transforming influence of which comes forth at particular moments and attests that the course of nature is not shut up within itself.

Large tanks of boiler-plate are used to receive the oil as it comes through the pipe-lines.

Seven-eighths of the revenue comes from the hut tax and customs. The average annual revenue for the five years 1901-1905 was £96,880; the average annual expenditure £69,559.

This disagreement comes largely from the attempts made to find definitely expressed Greek philosophical dogmas in the book; such formulas it has not, but the general air of Greek reflection seems unmistakable.

Transparent soaps are prepared by dissolving ordinary soap in strong alcohol and distilling off the greater portion of the alcohol till the residue comes to the condition of a thick transparent jelly.

This, when cast into forms and allowed to harden and dry slowly, comes out as transparent soap. A class of transparent soap may also be made by the cold process, with the use of coco-nut oil, castor oil and sugar.

He comes from the east, that is, the land of the rising sun.

This method, as originally proposed, is not in common use, but has been superseded by Kjeldahl's method, since the nitrogen generally comes out too low.

When he comes to the point where his memory has been clouded by Hagen's spells, Hagen restores his memory with another magic potion.

The quiet expression of these startling ideas is more remarkable than their adoption; for smaller artists live on still more startling ideas; but most remarkable of all is the presentation of Parsifal, both in his foolishness and in the widsom which comes to him through pity.

In his theories the element of mystical speculation for the first time comes to the front as all-important.

Internal evidence again comes to our aid to lend its weight to the latter theory.

The " Preparative Meeting " usually consists of a single congregation; next in order comes the " Monthly Meeting," the executive body, usually embracing several Preparative Meetings called together, as its name indicates, monthly (in some cases less often); then the " Quarterly Meeting," embracing several Monthly Meetings; and lastly the " Yearly Meeting," embracing the whole of Great Britain (but not Ireland).

The headland is known to the Somali as Girdif or Yardaf - whence in all probability comes the European form Guardafui.